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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 992056d | Agatha's last case had concerned a Sweeny Todd of a murderer over at Winter Parva. | M.C. Beaton | ||
| 9bf5715 | Good-bye healthy life and hullo rubber knickers and support hose? | M.C. Beaton | ||
| b2afa71 | Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more | James Shapiro | ||
| d422634 | I am bound upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears do scald like molten lead | James Shapiro | ||
| 433aa9a | Henry James'] essay's closing lines can either be read neutrally or as a more purposeful wish that this mystery [of Shakespeare's authorship] will one day be resolved by the 'criticism of the future': 'The figured tapestry, the long arras that hides him, is always there ... May it not then be but a question, for the fullness of time, of the finer weapon, the sharper point, the stronger arm, the more extended lunge?' Is Shakespeare hinting h.. | henry-james shakespeare-criticism | James Shapiro | |
| b3d17d1 | No bishop, no king"; he might have added, "No devil, no divine right." | James Shapiro | ||
| 03b5221 | By wrenching this increasingly outdated revenge play into the present, Shakespeare forced his contemporaries to experience what he felt and what his play registers so profoundly: the world had changed. Old certainties were gone, even if new ones had not yet taken hold. The most convincing way of showing this was to ask playgoers to keep both plays in mind at once, to experience a new Hamlet while memories of the old one, ghostlike, still li.. | James Shapiro | ||
| 7f8539a | Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. Other women cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry | James Shapiro | ||
| a2caf8c | Soothsayer's warning to Antony in Antony and Cleopatra, "If thou dost play with him at any game, / Thou art sure to lose" (2.3.26-27)," | James Shapiro | ||
| 5f0408b | First, my fear; then, my curtsy; last my speech. My fear is your displeasure; my curtsy, my duty; and my speech, to beg your pardons. | James Shapiro | ||
| f9e6525 | Shakespeare's way out of the dilemma of writing plays as pleasing at court as they were at the public theater was counterintuitive. Rather than searching for the lowest common denominator, he decided instead to write increasingly complicated plays that dispensed with easy pleasures and made both sets of playgoers work harder than they had ever worked before. It's not something that he could have imagined doing five years earlier (when he la.. | James Shapiro | ||
| e5a26a8 | Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety" (Antony, 2.2.245-46)." | James Shapiro | ||
| 6ec9391 | How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child" (Lear, 4.279-80)." | James Shapiro | ||
| 7e63c48 | After World War II, the United States, triumphant abroad and undamaged at home, saw a door wide open for world supremacy. Only the thing called 'communism' stood in the way, politically, militarily, economically, and ideologically. Thus it was that the entire US foreign policy establishment was mobilized to confront this 'enemy', and the Marshall Plan was an integral part of this campaign. How could it be otherwise? Anti-communism had been .. | William Blum | ||
| ff92c20 | Sensing my delight at seeing his laptop, Tom asked me, "William, have you ever seen the Internet?" "No." In a quiet conference room, Tom sat me down at his computer and explained the track pad, how the motion of my fingers guided the arrow on the screen. "This is Google," he said. "You can find answers to anything. What do you want to search for?" "Windmill." In one second, he'd pulled up five million page results-pictures and models of win.. | internet power-of-the-internet technology tom-rielly underdeveloped-countries | William Kamkwamba | |
| 0698836 | Every human being must make, and is making, this long evolutionary journey from spiritual infancy to godlike power and perfection, but there are two ways in which it may be done. We may, as the vast majority do, accept the process of unconscious evolution and submit to nature's whip and spur that continuously urge the thoughtless and indifferent forward until they finally reach the goal. Or, we may choose conscious evolution and work intell.. | Louis William Rogers | ||
| f7d77be | The financial world has been staggering under a series of blows such as the delicate system of international credit has never before witnessed, or even imagined... Nothing so widespread and so world-wide has ever been known before. Nothing...could have testified more clearly to the impossibility of running modern civilisation and war together than this...collapse of prices, produced not by the actual outbreak of a small war, but by fear of .. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| aa08363 | Indeed, there were those who maintained that Russia's defeat at the hands of the Japanese was itself the result of a Jewish conspiracy. According to S. A. Nilus, a secret Jewish council known as the Sanhedrin had hypnotized the Japanese into believing they were one of the tribes of Israel; it was the Jews' aim, Nilus insisted, 'to set a distraught Russia awash with blood and to inundate it, and then Europe, with the yellow hordes of a resur.. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| d4a8a2f | Ashkenazi | Niall Ferguson | ||
| ace269e | in response to discrimination and persecution in the Holy Roman Empire. They had moved further east into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and, despite the violence directed against them during the 1648 Ukrainian revolt, had continued this eastward pattern of migration and settlement into the eighteenth century. With the partitions of Poland, the areas of densest Jewish settlement came under Russian rule, | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 56a16e0 | Jews were emphatically second-class subjects of the Tsar. A Pale of Settlement, outside which Jews were not supposed to reside, had been established by Catherine II in 1791, though it was not precisely delineated until 1835. It consisted of Russian-controlled Poland | Niall Ferguson | ||
| f6a17c5 | Americans could once boast proudly that their system set the benchmark for the world; the United States was the rule of law. But now what we see is the rule of lawyers, which is something different. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 65792b2 | There is in fact no such thing as the future, singular; only futures, plural. There are multiple interpretations of history, to be sure, none definitive - but there is only one past. And although the past is over, for two reasons it is indispensable to our understanding of what we experience today and what lies ahead of us tomorrow and thereafter. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 329bbb5 | Large numbers of under-capitalized banks were a recipe for financial instability, and panics were a regular feature of American economic life - most spectacularly in the Great Depression, when a major banking crisis was exacerbated rather than mitigated by a monetary authority that had been operational for little more than fifteen years. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 9e832ec | The Armenian genocide was a horrific illustration of the convulsions that could seize a multi-ethnic polity trying to mutate from empire into nation state. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 2c461b6 | To my mind, a civilization is much more than just the contents of a few first-rate art galleries. It is a highly complex human organization. Its paintings, statues and buildings may well be its most eye-catching achievements, but they are unintelligible without some understanding of the economic, social and political institutions which devised them, paid for them, executed them - and preserved them for our gaze. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| a27325c | No serious writer would claim that the reign of Western civilization was unblemished. Yet there are those who would insist that there was nothing whatever good about it. This position is absurd. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 912fd14 | For roughly thirty years, young people at Western schools and universities have been given the idea of a liberal education, without the substance of historical knowledge. They have been taught isolated 'modules', not narratives, much less chronologies. They have been trained in the formulaic analysis of document excerpts, not in the key skill of reading widely and fast. They have been encouraged to feel empathy with imagined Roman centurion.. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| ef8b48e | Although the court recognizes his right to insist on his bond - to claim his pound of flesh - the law also prohibits him from shedding Antonio's blood. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| df9dcee | One difficulty is that we cannot always reconstruct the past thoughts of these non-Western peoples, for not all of them existed in civilizations with the means of recording and preserving thought. In the end, history is primarily the study of civilizations, because without written records the historian is thrown back on spearheads and pot fragments, from which much less can be inferred. The | Niall Ferguson | ||
| b7ace84 | Machiavelli asks "whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved?" He answers that "one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, it is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with." -- | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 74d39af | intellectual diversity is the form of diversity that seems to be least valued in universities, | Niall Ferguson | ||
| bb22b50 | poverty is not the result of rapacious financiers exploiting the poor. It has much more to do with the lack of financial institutions, with the absence of banks, not their presence. Only when borrowers have access to efficient credit networks can they escape from the clutches of loan sharks, and only when savers can deposit their money in reliable banks can it be channelled from the idle rich to the industrious poor. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| d959dfa | Not the last time in Western history, the revolutionaries armed themselves with a new religion to steel themselves for greater outrageous. | theology | Niall Ferguson | |
| 726b929 | biggest changes in history are the achievements of thinly documented, informally organized groups | Niall Ferguson | ||
| b3e7c62 | The English language is the one thing the Commonwealth still has in common. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 30033fc | After 1500 not all roads led to Rome | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 7186b05 | Trump's key supporters worked for him because nobody else would have them. | Michael Wolff | ||
| b2fdb8f | News of the Indian Mutiny had taken forty-six days to reach London in 1857, travelling at an effective speed of 3.8 miles an hour. News of the huge Nobi earthquake in Japan in 1891 took a single day, travelling at 246 miles an hour, sixty-five times faster.50 | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 34b073f | Conceptio culpa Nasci pena Labor vita Necesse mori 'Conception is sin, birth is pain, life is toil, death is inevitable. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 5902a3a | the state of the future will need to function more like the human immune system | Niall Ferguson | ||
| 330b6bb | the secret of our success as a species 'resides . . . in the collective brains of our communities | Niall Ferguson | ||
| ce24abb | We must pose the familiar question about how far our civil liberties have been eroded by the national security state... Somehow it is always a choice between habeas corpus and hundreds of corpses. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| b197fae | Since de Soto published The Mystery of Capital, revolutions in countries like Tunisia and Egypt have provided compelling evidence in support of his approach. He sees the 'Arab Spring' primarily as a revolt by frustrated would-be entrepreneurs against corrupt, rent-seeking regimes that preyed on their efforts to accumulate capital. The prime example is the story of the twenty-six-year-old | Niall Ferguson |